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of third-party material in the form of electronic records to which he merely provides access if such liability is founded on—
- (a) the making, publication, dissemination or distribution of such materials or any statement made in such material; or
- (b) the infringement of any rights subsisting in or in relation to such material.
(2) Nothing in this section shall affect—
- (a) any obligation founded on contract;
- (b) the obligation of a network service provider as such under a licensing or other regulatory regime established under any written law;
- (c) any obligation imposed under any written law or by a court to remove, block or deny access to any material; or
- (d) any liability of a network service provider under the Copyright Act (Cap. 63) in respect of—
- (i) the infringement of copyright in any work or other subject-matter in which copyright subsists; or
- (ii) the unauthorised use of any performance, the protection period of which has not expired.
(3) In this section—
- “performance” and “protection period” have the same meanings as in Part XII of the Copyright Act;
- “provides access”, in relation to third-party material, means the provision of the necessary technical means by which third-party material may be accessed and includes the automatic and temporary storage of the third-party material for the purpose of providing access;
- “third-party”, in relation to a network service provider, means a person over whom the provider has no effective control.
